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This workshop's aim is to investigate current trends in collecting, and focus on best practices and skills development for supporting the collection and sharing of robust, fit-for-research-use data. This 4-day short course is designed to be hands-on and will mix lectures with field work and participant exercises and presentations. | This workshop's aim is to investigate current trends in collecting, and focus on best practices and skills development for supporting the collection and sharing of robust, fit-for-research-use data. This 4-day short course is designed to be hands-on and will mix lectures with field work and participant exercises and presentations. | ||
'''Goals''' | ==='''Goals'''=== | ||
*Investigate, observe, discover leading-edge trends in field collecting. | *Investigate, observe, discover leading-edge trends in field collecting. | ||
*Provide examples of best practices for data collecting and data sharing including such data as field data, identifiers, trait data, and environmental variables. | *Provide examples of best practices for data collecting and data sharing including such data as field data, identifiers, trait data, and environmental variables. | ||
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*Discuss how data gets published and discovered. | *Discuss how data gets published and discovered. | ||
'''Objectives''' | ==='''Objectives'''=== | ||
*Students participate in field collecting with subject-matter experts and present what changes they plan to make to their collecting practices in a workshop presentation. | *Students participate in field collecting with subject-matter experts and present what changes they plan to make to their collecting practices in a workshop presentation. | ||
*Subject-matter experts share what they have learned from seeing / talking with others on this topic. | *Subject-matter experts share what they have learned from seeing / talking with others on this topic. | ||
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*Students write a post-workshop blog post, prepare a report, or presentation, to synthesize what was learned and pay-it-forward. | *Students write a post-workshop blog post, prepare a report, or presentation, to synthesize what was learned and pay-it-forward. | ||
===Our curriculum overview=== | |||
Our curriculum overview | |||
:'''Day 1''': Why a Field-to-Database Biodiversity Informatics Workshop? On Site Field Demos from Invited Experts from Paleontology, Ornithology, Ecology, Marine Science, Entomology, and Botany | :'''Day 1''': Why a Field-to-Database Biodiversity Informatics Workshop? On Site Field Demos from Invited Experts from Paleontology, Ornithology, Ecology, Marine Science, Entomology, and Botany | ||
:'''Day 2''': Student 3-minute presentations. General issues in field data collection to data synthesis. Getting started with R. | :'''Day 2''': Student 3-minute presentations. General issues in field data collection to data synthesis. Getting started with R. | ||
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The concepts, skills, and tools we teach are domain-independent, but example problem cases and datasets will be taken from organismal and evolutionary biology, biodiversity science, ecology, and environmental science. | The concepts, skills, and tools we teach are domain-independent, but example problem cases and datasets will be taken from organismal and evolutionary biology, biodiversity science, ecology, and environmental science. | ||
'''Skill Level''': '''Some exposure to R is required'''. This workshop is not for beginners. If you are new-ish to R, we request you take an intro to R course before the workshop. There are several good options: | ===='''Skill Level''':==== '''Some exposure to R is required'''. This workshop is not for beginners. If you are new-ish to R, we request you take an intro to R course before the workshop. There are several good options: | ||
:[http://tryr.codeschool.com/ Try R] (Code School course) | :[http://tryr.codeschool.com/ Try R] (Code School course) | ||
:[https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog intro to R](Coursera course starts Feb 2nd). | :[https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog intro to R](Coursera course starts Feb 2nd). | ||
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Updates will be posted to this website as they become available. | Updates will be posted to this website as they become available. | ||
'''Software Installation Requirements''' and additional information is available at the github web site for the project: | ==='''Software Installation Requirements'''=== and additional information is available at the github web site for the project: | ||
*github links to datasets here | *github links to datasets here | ||
*Rstudio | *Rstudio | ||